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Despite its rearmament backlog, Raytheon is not neglecting its civilian market, including commercial radar. It recently built the world's biggest antenna for the harbor of Le Havre, France. Last week, with long-sluggish TV sales picking up once more, President Adams flew out to Chicago to show off Belmont's newest "Vu-Matic" television models. The "Vu" stands for very high frequency and ultra-high frequency. Raytheon claims its new tuners will be able to cover the whole radio spectrum...
Scaramouche (M-G-M), based on Rafael Sabatini's costume-adventure yarn of pre-revolutionary France, combines spirited swordplay with a somewhat sluggish screenplay. Scaramouche (Stewart Granger) is an aristocrat who is bent on avenging the murder of his friend by malevolent Monarchist Mel Ferrer. Not only does Granger prove more than worthy of Master Swordsman Ferrer's steel; he also proves to be quite a gay blade by hiding out from the authorities with a troupe of traveling players. By the fadeout, Granger has found that Ferrer is really his halfbrother, and, in a happier twist...
Even with the price cuts, retail sales were still sluggish. But there were signs of a pickup. And the Federal Reserve Board reported that the index of industrial production, which had been holding steady for months, edged up in February...
Movie-theater owners were hoping they had found one solution to the problem of their sluggish box offices. Why not pipe in big sports events by means of private coaxial cables? Fans would have to pay to see the events, either at the point of origin, or at specific movie houses. Some exhibitors tried the scheme out last year (TIME, June 25). Last week the results were in: movies will probably have to be better than ever, without benefit...
...last August, the allies started "Operation Strangle"-a sustained interdiction attack on the enemy's supply and communications. Sluggish at first, the Communists finally reacted, brought in more guns and better crews (some of them believed to be Russian or European). By last week the enemy had so much flak that it was strung out along the North Korean rail lines, in addition to the lethal concentrations around the important targets. In spite of the U.N.'s high losses, the battle has not been one-sided: since Operation Strangle started, the U.N. claims to have destroyed...